Just wanted to share my thoughts on Smarty...it was one of the first tools I used for templates and I'm still using it today.It followed me from my rookie years to now when I'm an experienced senior programmer...

Smarty gives me so much freedom..there was not ONE occasion where I was stuck with smarty...

The list of my cmses and pages that include smarty is huge. Even today when we have "new kids" on the interview I always ask if they used Smarty.If they say No I ask why...Usualy they'll say..."it's not good enough" which to me is a n alert that the guy is crap....then I usualy ask "how do you know?have you read it or have you worked with it or you just installed and never used it"...it's always the first answer.."I've read it"....this is where I "rest my case"